Criminal gangs in Greece are renting genuine passports and identity documents
to thousands of illegal immigrants, enabling them to enter Britain
undetected, a Sunday Times investigation has found.

One Athens-based gang supplied an undercover reporter, posing as an illegal
immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, with a French identity card
bearing the photograph of a woman who looked like her. The card enabled her
to enter Britain unimpeded two weeks ago.

The leader of the gang showed undercover reporters eight identity cards and
explained how illegal immigrants wait in a “safe house” until an identity
document with a photograph similar to them becomes available.

The gang charges immigrants €1,000 (£824) to hire the identity documents,
which they use to pass through border controls.